No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.

Some are less giving, others are more reticent and you actually have to create for them. Others have within them the next step.

SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.

I'm not interested in a group of people with some sort of incredible homogeny,a group that can do the movement I want. I'm interested in people whocan take the movement somewhere.

I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form.